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Insect-injuuiks. — The Hessian fly {Cecidoniyia destructor) Avas ob- 

 aerved during October in the early sown wheat of Botetourt County, 

 Virginia. The young crop was here attacked also by some unknown 

 insect woiking under ground and devouring the rootlets and stalks. 

 During November this insect was observed in Frederick, Shenan- 

 doah, and Page Counties, Virginia; Clarke County, North Carolina; 

 Fulton County, Arkansas; Berkeley County, West Virginia; Miami 

 and Vinton Counties, Ohio ; and Jennings and Saint Joseph Counties, 

 Indiana. In the last-named county the ravages of this insect were con- 

 fined to sandy soils, while the grub-worm {Lachnosferna fusca) ope- 

 rated in clay-soil croi)s. The chinch-bug {Micropus {Rhyparochromus) 

 leucopterns) was noted in the wheat-crops of Jennings County, Indiana, 

 and Lawrence County, Illinois. Undescribed wheat-destroying insects 

 were reported in Boone and Hamilton Counties, Illinois. 



The cut- worm (Agrotis?) was destructive to corn iu Oakland and Cal- 

 houn Counties, Michigan; Outagamie County, Wisconsin; and Franklin 

 County, Missouri. This insect was especially troublesome in corn 

 planted upon sod-land that had not been fall-plowed. The chinch- 

 bug was active in Sangamon, Clinton, Perry, and Lawrence Counties, 

 Illinois; and in Phelps, Franklin, and Morris Counties, Missouri. The 

 white grub was destructive to sod-land corn in Washington County, 

 Rhode Island. Grasslioppers {Calopteniis spretus) were complained of 

 iu Thayer County, Nebraska, and iu Bonhomme County, Dakota. 



Grasshoppers destroyed the buckwheat-crop iu Lincoln County, Kan- 

 sas, and Clay County, Dakota. 



Grasshoppers damaged the oats iu Morgan County, Utili. 



Chinch-bugs destroyed the sorghum-crops in Brown County, Indiana, 

 and Phelps County, Iowa; in the former the old Chinese sorghum is 

 especially mentioned, the other varieties not being injured. 



In Hamilton County, Indiana, and Lee County, Iowa, the hay-crop 

 was shortened by grub-worms. In Franklin County, Kansas, ali the 

 experimental crops of blue grass were swept by grasshoppers. In Ken- 

 dall and Blanco Counties, Texas, immense swarms of this destructive 

 insect are rej)orted as perforating the earth and laying eggs for their 

 next generation. They afterward departed southward. 



In Mechlenburgh County, Virginia, tobacco-worms {Macrosila Caro- 

 lina) were less destructive than usual ; these grubs were destroyed by 

 liornets and yellow-jackets. In Nelson County cut worms assailed the 

 crop just as it was planted; as soon as it was above ground, in moist 

 solis, it was injured by horn- worms. 



Potato bugs were reported in Madison County, Virginia; Logan, 

 Tuscarawas, Koss, Pickaway, Morgan, Meigs, Cosho(;ton, Butler, and 

 Ashland Counties, Ohio; Washtenaw, Montcalm, Lenawee, Clinton, 

 and Antrim Counties, Micliigan ; Marion, Gibson, Decatur, Steuben, 

 and Franklin Counties, Indiana; Winnebago, Putnam, Cass, and 

 Clark Counties, Illinois; Outagamie, Wisccmsin; Steele and Ked- 

 ■wood Counties, Minnesota ;^ and in Thayer County, Nebraska. In most 

 of these cases the Colorado heatle {Dory phora decemlineata) was men- 

 tioned specitically. In New London County, Connecticut, the white and 

 wire worms were spoken of; and in Thiiyer County, Nebraska, blister- 

 flies, as injurious to potatoes. Hanlin County, Iowa, was exempt after 

 seven years of visitation. •' Tycks Seedling" i)otato is reported there as 

 "bug-proof." 



Much harm was done by cabbage worms in Luzerne County, Penn- 

 sylvania, a^nd Cecil County, Maryland, , 

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